Life as a family of four

Descent into madness

The silly season is upon us. From here until the end of the year the calendar is packed. There are Christmas gatherings and first birthday parties and who knows what else. Alongside my scaling back work, Clark starting her new job. As well as needing to try to fit in an appointment with the accountant so that C/Link doesn’t cut off what meagre payments they give us. It’s going to be a crazy crazy time.

And this is us who have few friends and no social life to speak of. The mind boggles when trying to comprehend what people with active social lives must go through at this time of year. Do they not sleep?

I am looking forward to the Christmas break. I will be actually getting a decent break this year. Even before Clark got this new job I had arranged to take leave, and it worked out amazingly. Given the days I work and the way the public holidays fall this year, I only needed to take one day’s leave in order to have 11 days off. Now, the same will apply, but with my restricted hours its going to be hard to have everything up to date in order to feel relaxed while I’m off. I’m trying not to worry about that yet. It’ll ruin my warm fuzzy feeling that I’ll be stopping work soon enough. Not that I’m not going to have to turn around and find something else immediately or else we’re going to struggle, but it seems amorphous and insubstantial at this distance. I don’t want it to resolve clearly yet, I’m trying to be happy in my delusion.